On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 19:21:28 -0500, Ken Schneider
On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 18:57, Greg Freemyer wrote:
All,
How do I get SUSE 9.2 to use a SCSI tape drive?
=== Background
When you type dmesg does it show the tape drive being recognized? You should see a line for the st0 device.
Oct 1 09:02:01 tapeserver kernel: (scsi2:A:2): 40.000MB/s
I've made a little progress, but I still can't see my tape drive under SUSE 9.2 More info: I found stinit for SUSE 9.2. Surprisingly it is only on the DVD!!! in a package called mt_st. running stinit causes the kernel module "st" to be loaded, but /dev/tape and /dev/st0 are still not tied to anything. With a 2.4 kernel (where it works) I get the below in messages during the boot sequence (before calling stinit): transfers (20.000MHz, offset 8, 16bit)
Oct 1 09:02:05 tapeserver kernel: Vendor: IBM Model: ULTRIUM-TD1 Rev: 12U5 Oct 1 09:02:05 tapeserver kernel: Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 Oct 1 09:02:05 tapeserver kernel: blk: queue c3f21e14, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) Oct 1 09:02:08 tapeserver kernel: st: Version 20020805, bufsize 32768, wrt 30720, max init. bufs 4, s/g segs 16 Oct 1 09:02:08 tapeserver kernel: Attached scsi tape st0 at scsi2, channel 0, id 2, lun 0
With the 2.6.8 kernel from SUSE I only get:
Dec 1 11:45:39 tapeserver kernel: st: Version 20040403, fixed bufsize 32768, s/g segs 256
In /proc I have: # cat /proc/scsi/aic7xxx/2 # I have 2 3ware cards in the same system that are scsi0 and scsi1 Adaptec AIC7xxx driver version: 6.2.36 Adaptec 29160 Ultra160 SCSI adapter aic7892: Ultra160 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 32/253 SCBs Allocated SCBs: 4, SG List Length: 128 Serial EEPROM: 0xc33a 0xc33a 0xc33a 0xc33a 0xc33a 0xc33a 0xc33a 0xc33a 0xc33a 0xc33a 0xc33a 0xc33a 0xc33a 0xc33a 0xc33a 0xc33a 0x08f4 0x7c5c 0x2807 0x0010 0x0300 0xffff 0xffff 0xffff 0xffff 0xffff 0xffff 0xffff 0xffff 0xffff 0x0250 0xe64e Target 0 Negotiation Settings User: 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz DT, offset 127, 16bit) Target 1 Negotiation Settings User: 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz DT, offset 127, 16bit) Target 2 Negotiation Settings User: 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz DT, offset 127, 16bit) Target 3 Negotiation Settings User: 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz DT, offset 127, 16bit) Target 4 Negotiation Settings User: 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz DT, offset 127, 16bit) Target 5 Negotiation Settings User: 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz DT, offset 127, 16bit) Target 6 Negotiation Settings User: 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz DT, offset 127, 16bit) Target 7 Negotiation Settings User: 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz DT, offset 127, 16bit) Target 8 Negotiation Settings User: 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz DT, offset 127, 16bit) Target 9 Negotiation Settings User: 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz DT, offset 127, 16bit) Target 10 Negotiation Settings User: 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz DT, offset 127, 16bit) Target 11 Negotiation Settings User: 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz DT, offset 127, 16bit) Target 12 Negotiation Settings User: 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz DT, offset 127, 16bit) Target 13 Negotiation Settings User: 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz DT, offset 127, 16bit) Target 14 Negotiation Settings User: 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz DT, offset 127, 16bit) Target 15 Negotiation Settings User: 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz DT, offset 127, 16bit) Thanks Greg